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Besides causing untold anxiety for parents, the rash of child-abuse accusations against day-care centers during the past year is having a financial side effect. Insurance companies, which anticipate a wave of costly lawsuits from victims, have started drastically boosting the premiums they charge day-care centers. A neighborhood facility in San Antonio, for example, was abruptly informed by its insurance company earlier this year that the center's $600-a-year policy would be canceled. When the center took out insurance from another company, it cost...
...slied some light-though, when he mentioned the "grateful son of Eli" who sent him $50 in appreciation of the games. New York's public station took in an additional $1000 of donations each week the games were broadeast directly; and the stations all hope that the games generated untold good will among the people on whom public broadcasting depends the fairly well off folks who respond generously to the financial needs of the viewer supported public stations...
...accept in return. The principal source of contention is a weapon that is still only a concept: the Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars. Proposed by Ronald Reagan ! almost two years ago as an impenetrable shield against incoming missiles, the SDI is at least a decade and untold billions of dollars away from deployment. Many experts doubt that it can ever be made to work, at least as well as it is supposed to--and would have...
...months later, similar suicide bombings within moments of each other took the lives of 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers. Sixty-one others died two weeks after that when a bomb devastated an Israeli military headquarters in the southern port city of Tyre. In the meantime, of course, untold hundreds have died in the continuing chaos throughout Lebanon...
They have taken untold millions...